Celtic FC, Glasgow | Football Clubs - Yell Football Clubs Help us to improve this listing Tell us what's wrong! Business Overview FIRST BRITISH TEAM AND ONLY SCOTTISH TEAM TO WIN THE EUROPEAN CUP. Celtic Football Club is legendary and as with most legends as much myth as fact surrounds its history and what the Club stands for today. The Social Mission Statement aims to simply define what the Club stands for and seeks to promote within society.Celtic Football Club was founded in 1888. Its principal founder was a Marist Brother named Walfrid. The Club had two principal aims: The first aim was to raise funds to provide food for the poor of the East End of Glasgow, an area of the City that was greatly impoverished and had a high rate of infant mortality. Within the East End was a large Irish community and friction was growing between the native Glaswegians and the new influx of Irish. Brother Walfrid saw the need for social integration and his vision was a football club that Scottish and Irish, Protestants and Catholics alike could support. A new football club would be a vehicle to bring the communities together and this was the second aim.

Photos Research and Remembrance - Celtic Football Club ROBERT HOSKINS Celtic Football Club and the Great War If being the 1st British Club ever to win the European Cup was not in itself a peerless achievement, the philanthropic origins of Celtic Football Club also make it a totally unique institution in British football. The Club was founded in 1888 by a Marist Brother by the name of Brother Walfrid. Brother Walfrid was so appalled at the poverty and squalid living conditions which were the lot of Glasgow's East-End Irish immigrant population, that he founded the Club specifically to raise money to alleviate their hardship. Walfrid could never have imagined then, that less than thirty years later, the Club that he founded would be contributing to the Great War effort. Unlike the romantic roots of the Club, the link between Celtic and the 1st World War has yet to be fully explored. Yet to ignore it is to deny football fans the world over access to another major part of Celtic's unique social history.

For example, Willie Angus who signed for Celtic in 1911 and played for the team during seasons 1912-13 and 1913-14 became the first ever Scottish Territorial soldier to win the Victoria Cross. Willie won his VC on June 12th, 1915 in Givenchy. He lost an eye, damaged a foot and was wounded 40 times in the process of successfully rescuing Lt James Martin, a fellow native of Willie's home town of Carluke who was lying injured a couple of feet away from the German front lines. A visit to the Willie Angus website gives the reader the full details of his deed and provides a unique insight into his truly amazing story. Needless to say Willie never played for Celtic again after this. There were other Celts who fought and unlike Willie never made it back to Blighty. Of the 908,371 British and Commonwealth soldiers killed during the Great 1914-18 War, 7 of them were on the books of Celtic.

Willie Angus VC Spare a thought for the following ex Celtic players, Patrick Slavin, Leigh Roose, Donnie McLeod, Archie McMillan, Robert Craig, John McLaughlin and Peter Johnstone they gave their lives in the bloodiest war of them all - this article is dedicated to their memory. We pick up their story in 1916, 2 years into the Great War at the Battle of the Somme. July 1st 1916, the 1st day of the Somme is famous for being the blackest day in British military history where nearly 60,000 British casualties were sustained in the first hour and a half of the Battle. The battle raged on for five months from July 1st to November 25th during that time the British forces managed to advance no further than 12 kilometres sustaining 420,000 casualties, 2 of whom played for Celtic. One of those players was the enigmatic Welsh International goalkeeper Leigh Roose who also held a Doctorate in Bacteriology, who played on loan to Celtic once in March 1910.

Leigh joined the 9th Royal Fusiliers in 1914 and rose to the rank of Lance Corporal and won the Military Medal. Leigh died on 7th of October 1916, his Battalion was caught up in fierce fighting in the Battle for Montauban. At 1:45pm Leigh's regiment led the attack on enemy lines, encountering heavy machine gun fire on the way. On reaching the top of the nearby ridge, the attacking battalions were practically decimated by heavy shelling and machine gun fire. Like many attacking manoeuvres throughout the 1st World War, the objectives of this attack were never reached. That one day's attack highlighted the human tragedy that was the First World War, costing the lives of 25 men with an additional 165 missing presumed dead and 132 wounded for no material gain. As one of those 165 who is still 'missing' Leigh's name is inscribed on the massive Thiepval Memorial to his 72,000 other comrades who died in the Battle who also have no known grave.

The second Celtic player who lost his life on the Somme was Sergeant Patrick Slavin whose playing career included spells at Fauldhouse Hibs, Heatherbell, Celtic, Broxburn and West Calder Swifts. Seargent Slavin was with the 2nd Bn Royal Scots and died on Monday 13th November 1916. Patrick lies buried in Serre Rd No 2 Cemetery in the same cemetery as my Great Great Uncle Harold Bates, which is the largest cemetery on the Somme, containing 7,126 graves. Patrick's Regiment was involved in one of the most significant Battles of the Somme campaign - the 2nd Battle for the village of Serre. On the fateful day of Patrick's death, fog was thick as zero hour approached at 5am which signified the start of the 2nd ill-fated attack on Serre. The Regimental diary states that they were not as prepared as they might have been for the unexpected weather conditions, suggesting that tapes should have been laid in advance to guide Patrick's comrades to where the gaps were in the German barbed wire.

One cannot begin to imagine what it must have been like for Patrick and his comrades waiting to go over the top at 5am into 'insufficient light' plus thick fog with no tapes to guide them to where the enemy was. If that was not bad enough the diary also informs us that not only had the German wire not been properly cut to the extent reported, but also the enemy lay in wait in 'greater numbers than expected'. One suspects that even if Black Adder's batman Baldrick had been in charge that day, his cunning plan would not have involved this suicide mission which resulted in 23 soldiers including Patrick being killed, 84 missing presumed dead and 177 wounded. The following year of 1917 saw a further 4 Celtic players killed in action. Two players died within 6 days of each other and were both involved in the Battle of Arras, which claimed 139,867 British casualties. Details of John McLaughlin's Celtic career are scant which suggests that he was probably on the books but never made a 1st team appearance. John was not only played with Celtic but also Mossend Hibs and Renton.

John held the rank of Private in the 11th Battalion of the Highland Light Infantry (HLI) - and died of his wounds on Thursday 10th May 1917 and is buried in Etaples Military Cemetery. John was almost certainly a patient in one of the 15 military hospitals located in Etaples. John was probably injured on 23.4.17 which was the date of the last recorded heavy casualty list incurred by the 10/11th HLI at the Battle for Cavelry Farm at Monchy Le Preux just North of Arras. Eleven days later the pre-war Celtic legend Peter Johnstone who played 223 times for the club and featured prominently in the 6 league titles in a row side also died in the Battle of Arras on Wednesday 16th May. Peter joined the 6th Battalion of the Seaforth Highlanders as a Private to get quicker into the action. Peter was involved in very heavy fighting to capture a nearby chemical works between May 15th-16th. The Regimental casualty list over the 2 day Battle, reads 43 killed, 26 missing presumed dead and 51 wounded.

Sadly Peter's body was never recovered and his name is inscribed on the Arras Memorial to the Missing. Rumour of Peter's death swept throughout Glasgow and was sadly confirmed on June 6th. The grim harvest that was 1917 also claimed Archie McMillan who made his first team debut as an outside left against Rangers in 1913. Between the 21st and 23rd of November, Private Archie McMillan and the rest of the 1st/7th Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders were involved in heavy fighting in the Battle of Cambrai, North of Arras. The Argyll's orders were to capture the village of Fontaine Notre-Dame which is located 2-3 miles outside Cambrai in Northern France. Archie's battalion was successful in capturing the village on the 23rd November 1917. Unfortunately Archie along with 8 of his other comrades died, a further 22 were missing presumed dead and 126 were wounded during the three-day battle. Archie is buried in Rocquigny-Equancort Rd British Cemetery, Manancourt.

The final casualty of 1917 was Donald McLeod who made 155 appearances as a full back for Celtic between 1902-08. Gunner McLeod was in the 466th Battery of the 65th Royal Field Artillery (RFA) and died from his wounds on Saturday 6.10.17. Donnie is buried in Dozinghem Military Cemetery in Poperinge, Belgium which was used as a Casualty Clearing Station until 1918 which suggests that Donnie was not killed in Battle but injured. Unfortunately due to scant regimental diary information, all we know of the whereabouts of Donnie was that he was in Belgium when he picked up his injury. Donnie most certainly would have been involved in the latter stages of the Battle of Passchendaele. Passchendaele was hell on earth - a mudbath where the Battlefield had been turned into a swamp by continuous rain and shelling.

The conditions were so horrific that they prompted the Great War poet Siegfried Sassoon to write: "...I died in Hell (they called it Passchendaele) my wound was slight and I was hobbling back; and then a shell burst slick upon the duckboards; so I fell into the bottomless mud, and lost the light" Passchendaele lasted 3 months at a cost of over half a million lives of which 300,000 were British. The final Celt to die in the Great War was Robert Craig who died on Friday 19th April 1918. Robert's Celtic career spanned between 1906-09 where he appeared 13 times as full-back. Robert was a Private in the 5th Battalion of the South Wales Borderers (SWB) and lies buried in Boulogne Eastern Cemetery which was used as a hospital cemetery. Robert was wounded on the 11th April as the German's re-captured the Belgian town of Messines, the scene of a British victory a year earlier. Ten SWB's died that day and Robert was one of 38 wounded who were taken to hospital.

To visit the Graves of Patrick Slavin, Archie McMillan, John McLaughlin and Donnie McLeod and the Memorials to the Missing which contain the names of Leigh Roose and Peter Johnstone gave me a chance to reflect upon the deaths of these brave men and their connections with Celtic. As a Scottish Club, Celtic are by no means unique with regards to their links with the Great War. At the end of November 1914, the entire Hearts first team squad enlisted and seven of their players also died. The only difference is that their names live on in the form of a Club war memorial at Haymarket Station. Isn't it about time Celtic officially recognised this forgotten part of their social history in a similar way, so that the fans of today and tomorrow can respect the memory of the 7 players from yesterday who died during the Great War?

(Thanks to Eugene McBride and Peter Burns for archive information) For a direct link to the author of this article, email Robert Hoskins Copyright © Robert Hoskins November, 2001 Irish Marist who founded Celtic FC for big screen - Catholicireland.netCatholicireland.net > Irish Marist who founded Celtic FC for big screen Irish Marist who founded Celtic FC for big screen By Sean Ryan - 01 February, 2016 The historical backdrop of the film will span over 40 years from when the first famine survivors arrived in Glasgow in 1846 to the establishment of Celtic FC in 1887. The story of the Irish Marist Brother who formed Glasgow Celtic Football Club looks set for the big screen. Brother Walfrid was born John Kerins and was a native of Ballymote in Co Sligo. It has now been confirmed that the British Film Institute is backing a major feature film about Celtic which will focus on the Irish community who formed the club in Glasgow’s East End. Speaking to the Irish Post newspaper, award-winning Scottish novelist Andrew O’Hagan confirmed that he is working on the script after being selected by actor/director Peter Mullan.

He said, “The BFI have backed the project. Peter Mullan is going to direct; it’s a film set in Victorian Glasgow about the establishment of Celtic Football club.” Speaking about the film he said, “I don’t see the film as being a vehicle for the legend of paradise. This is a story about self-respect, it’s an austerity movie about how to triumph over hard times so it couldn’t be more timely in a way,” he added. Brother Walfrid, who was headmaster as the Sacred Heart School in Glasgow, will be a pivotal character in the motion picture. The film’s narrative will also concentrate on how the Irish survived by forming a community around Celtic and Irish Catholic parishes in and around Glasgow. According to Andrew O’Hagan, “Brother Walfrid and the East End of Glasgow are very much central to the story. Without going into detail, it’s the story of an Irish family around the Saltmarket area during the years running up to the establishment of the club. It’s the story of church members, the local clergy and the Irish immigrant community beginning to organise themselves socially and politically.

It’s a story that has never been told.” He revealed that the historical backdrop of the film will span over 40 years from when the first famine survivors arrived in 1846 to the establishment of Celtic in 1887. He added that it has always been his intention to really get into the hearts and minds of people living in the community at that time. “This team formed by Marist Brothers would go on to European glory but that 40 year period has never been documented in a way that would satisfy me.” Brother Walfrid died on 17 April 1915, aged 74, in Dumfries.

Follow us on Twitter @CINetNews Share this: The Irishman who Founded Celtic Football Club | Ireland's Own The Irishman who Founded Celtic Football Club The Irishman who Founded Celtic Football Club Mar 10, 2016 0 618 As well as founding Celtic Football Club, Sligo-born Brother Walfrid did great work for the poor of Glasgow and London, writes Jim Devereux Brother Walfrid - Immortals of British Sport Immortals of British Sport View gallery 1 2 3 Many philanthropic individuals and religious organisations in the late Victorian era saw sport as a way to develop ‘moral character’ in the ‘lower’ classes in the expanding towns and cities. It was the so-called doctrine of ‘muscular Christianity’. Football clubs formed by church organisations included Aston Villa (promoted by the Villa Cross Wesleyan Chapel), Everton (as part of the St Domingo’s Church Sunday School), Fulham (by St Andrew’s Sunday School) and Southampton (by the young men of St Mary’s Church). Many clubs have distinctive stories but few have been so closely associated with their formative roots as Glasgow Celtic.

Andrew Kerins made a journey as a 15-year-old to escape from famine and political unrest in Ireland but, sadly, only to squalor and poverty in Glasgow. He was looked after by a religious group of Marist Brothers who brought care and education to the poverty-stricken of Glasgow’s east end. Aged 24, Kerins decided that his own vocation would be with them and he became Brother Walfrid. He sought to create a football team in Glasgow not only as a fund-raising venture for charity but as a social focus for the community. The Celtic Football and Athletic Club was formed in November 1887 in St Mary’s parish hall. The name ‘Celtic’, proposed by Brother Walfrid himself, conveyed the link with the Irish. The Scottish League had not yet been formed. A circular was issued declaring that “the main object of the club was to supply .... funds for the maintenance of the dinner tables for the needy children in the missions of St Mary’s, Sacred Heart and St Michael’s”. In 2005, a fine sculpture of Brother Walfrid was unveiled outside Celtic Park to commemorate the major part he played in the founding of the club.

The chair of the Memorial Committee, Eddie Toner, observed ruefully that modern football has been taken over by many of the values and philosophies that Walfrid would undoubtedly have opposed. The memorial would act “as a humble reminder of the club’s origins”. A Response to Scottish Football's Sectarian Problem | Bleacher Report A Response to Scottish Football's Sectarian Problem Use your ← → (arrow) keys to browse more stories 780 6 Comments I was dismayed to read an article on Bleacher Report entitled Scottish Football’s Sectarian Problem. I have no wish to enter into a sectarianism debate, or become involved in a tit-for-tat, “you’re worse than us” type argument, but some of the points made by the author, Samuel Aughey, really do require a response. Mr. Aughey starts out by making the unsubstantiated claim that there is no sectarian problem in Scotland. Well, the various police forces in Scotland are required to keep a record of religiously-aggravated crimes which makes interesting reading. This is neither the time nor the place to expand, but suffice to say, sectarianism is a problem in Scotland, although the scale of that problem is open to debate.

The author then contradicts himself, laying out a catalogue of sectarian incidents, real and imagined, the blame for which he places at the door of Celtic Football Club, and Celtic management, players and supporters. Let’s look at the author’s first claim—that Celtic were founded by an Irish Catholic priest to keep Catholics away “from the influence of the Protestant churches.” Contrary to the author’s claim, Celtic were founded not by an Irish Catholic priest, but by a Marist monk, Brother Walfrid. The Head teacher of Sacred Heart parochial school in Glasgow’s east end in 1887, Walfrid left Co. Sligo as a child during the famine and was horrified by the poverty, hunger, and disease endured by the hundreds of thousands of Irish immigrants to the second city of the Empire. Celtic was founded to raise funds to feed and clothe these starving immigrants. Walfrid was further motivated by the ubiquitous presence of Protestant missionaries, eager to hand out food to the Irish on the condition that they publicly renounced their Catholic faith. Was it sectarian of him to try to do something about this? What was a Marist Brother to do? Celtic was intended to be inclusive from the start.

The typical Irish-founded football club in Scotland was called “Hibernians,” “Harp,” “Emerald,” “Shamrock,” or some such Irish-derived name. The new club was called “Celtic,” (pronounced with a hard “C”) at Walfrid’s insistence, because it was a name both Irish and Scots could identify with, encompassing their common cultural heritage. Brother Walfrid sought the support of both Catholic and Protestant, Irish and Scot, for his new club. Unlike Rangers, who from 1920-89 knowingly employed only one Catholic player (who was told by the club to keep quiet about it after they found out), Celtic have always been open to all, and many of the greatest ever Celts have been Protestant. Celtic would be nothing today without the contribution of Jock Stein, the Protestant manager who led the club to their greatest victory. Until the end of the First World War, Rangers were clearly Scotland’s second-biggest club. Only with the influx of Protestant shipyard workers from Belfast, and the adoption of a Protestants-only signing policy in 1920, did Rangers acquire the financial muscle to challenge Celtic’s supremacy in Scottish football.

In his rather hysterical and paranoid piece about Celtic/Catholic plots to destroy Rangers, Mr. Aughey complains that in the 1950’s, Celtic flew “the Irish Republican flag which they insisted on flying at their stadium in preference to the British Union Flag.” He goes on to state that many people found this offensive because, “the IRA were engaged in one of their ongoing bombing campaigns against British citizens in Northern Ireland.” First of all, the flag in question was (and is) the flag of the Republic of Ireland. Celtic have flown the Irish flag since their inception, first a gold harp on green background, then, since the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922, the tri-colour. It is flown on match-days only, in contrast to the flags of Scotland and the UK, which are flown constantly above Celtic Park. Secondly, in 1952, when the Scottish Football Association attempted to force Celtic to take down the flag of Ireland, there was no “IRA bombing campaign.” The IRA Border Campaign which lasted from 1956-62 was still four year away.

At that time, there had been no serious IRA activity in the north of Ireland in over 30 years. Even taking account of IRA/Provisional IRA activities, why would anyone find the flag of the Republic of Ireland offensive? Celtic refused to remove the flag, and to their great credit, Rangers did indeed back them, although it is stretching credibility beyond breaking point to suggest Rangers “saved” Celtic. This was an orchestrated attack on Celtic’s Irish heritage by the Scottish footballing establishment and the question must be asked, who were the bigots here? Next, Mr. Aughey complains that Vatican-inspired plotters conducted an unspecified “hatchet-job” on Rangers, and that the then-Celtic manager (the universally-respected Martin O’Neill) “systematically and deliberately pinned the blame for all Scotland's sectarian problems at Rangers door.” What actually happened in this instance is that during a press-conference before Celtic’s UEFA Champions League match with Barcelona in November 2004, O’Neill was asked a question by a Scottish journalist about the sending-off of former Northern Ireland internationalist Neil Lennon during the match against Rangers the weekend before.

O’Neill said that Lennon had been the subject of sectarian and racially motivated hatred from the Rangers support. This was picked up by a UEFA delegate, and following an investigation by UEFA, Rangers were fined over their supporters’ singing of a charming little ditty entitled The Billy Boys. To the tune of Marching Through Georgia, Rangers fans had for decades exulted in being “up to their knees in Fenian blood.” Celtic’s response was a “deafening silence” rages Mr. Aughey. Does the author imagine that Celtic could or should have said something to change the fact that Rangers supporters routinely broke UEFA rules on sectarian chanting? Maybe silence was the only appropriate response from Celtic. In the case of Rangers Vice-Chairman Donald Findlay QC, in addition to The Sash, he was filmed singing The Billy Boys, on the night that a Catholic Celtic supporter was murdered in Glasgow, shot in the chest by a crossbow bolt fired by, you guessed it, a Rangers supporter. You bet Rangers were hugely embarrassed (by Findlay’s singing that is). That happened in 1999. The incident involving the two Celtic players referred to by Mr. Aughey happened not around the same time, but about five years later.

The players were filmed on a mobile phone camera, at a Celtic supporters function in Ireland, singing along to the well known folk song, The Fields of Athenry, a song popular with Celtic supporters, and indeed a song much-loved by Irish and non-Irish people the world over. In the grainy images, with poor sound quality, it is far from conclusive that the players did anything, other than sing the words to the song. I wonder which verse or lines Mr. Aughey finds offensive? Mr. Aughey’s piece descends into the gutter with references to child abuse at Celtic Boys Club. First of all, wasn’t the article supposed to be about sectarianism? Why mention something which is clearly not sectarian? Secondly, wasn’t the article supposed to be about Celtic and Rangers? Why mention something about Celtic Boys Club, which is a completely separate organization to Celtic Football Club? Thirdly, why the insistence on referring to child abuse amongst clergymen? What has the Church to do with Celtic, or indeed Rangers? Fourthly, the person in question was never an employee of Celtic Football Club. Mr.

Aughey’s piece, purporting to educate the unwary on sectarianism in Scottish football, is nothing more than an ill-informed tissue of lies, half-truths and distortions. I could easily respond with a litany of allegations of sectarianism involving Rangers - management players and supporters - but that would be extremely unhelpful, not to mention something which really has no relevance on a sports website. Film to be made about Irish Marist Brother who founded Glasgow Celtic Football Club Legal Information Film to be made about Irish Marist Brother who founded Glasgow Celtic Football Club The story of the Irish Marist brother who founded the Glasgow Celtic Football Club is going to go public on the screens. Online news outlet catholicireland.net revealed in an article that the British Film Institute is backing a major feature movie about Andrew Kerins, known by his religious name as Brother Walfrid, and the Irish community in Scotland of his time. “Brother Walfrid and the east end of Glasgow are very much central to the story,” stated award-winning Scottish novelist Andrew O’Hagan, who is working on the script after the film’s director – Peter Mullan – selected him.

“Without going into detail, it’s the story of an Irish family around the Saltmarket area during the years running up to the establishment of the club,” he added. “It’s the story of church members, the local clergy and the Irish immigrant community beginning to organise themselves socially and politically, it’s a story that has never been told.” The film will cover the 40 years from when the first Irish famine survivors arrived to Glasgow in 1846 until Br Walfrid created the Celtic FC in 1887.Its focus will also be on how they formed a community around Irish Catholic parishes in the city. “This team formed by Marist Brothers would go on to European glory, but that 40 year period has never been documented in a way that would satisfy me,” stated Andrew. Br Walfrid was from Ballymote in County Sligo and joined the Marists in 1864. He studied teaching and became headmaster at the Sacred Heart School in Glasgow. In 1888 he founded the Football Club to help raise money for the poor in the east end of Glasgow.

He was sent to London’s East End in 1893 where he organised football matches for fundraising and established a charity called “The Poor Children’s Dinner Table.” Br Walfrid died on 17 April 1915, aged 74, back in Dumfries, Scotland. “This is a story about self-respect, it’s an austerity movie about how to triumph over hard times so it couldn’t be more timely in a way,” said Andrew. Celtic Football Club : History : Jock Stein : Lisbon Lions : Henrik Larsson : Kenny Dalglish Celtic FC Celtic FC History - Introduction Celtic is one of the most famous football clubs in the World. It has a rich and varied history that has brought tremendous success on the pitch. Along with Glasgow Rangers the club has dominated football in Scotland down though the decades. Founded by a Sligo man, Marist Brother Walfrid, to help raise funds for his charity, Celtic went on to dominate football in Europe when the club won the European Cup in 1967 Celtic FC History Irish Man Forms Celtic Football Club Celtic Football Club was formed on 6 November 1887 by Irish catholic Brother Walfrid.

Born in County Sligo in Ireland Andrew Kerins joined the Marist Brothers Teaching Order in 1864 and adopted the name of Brother Walfrid. He was sent by the Order to Scotland and was appalled at the poverty in which the children of East Glasgow lived. He formed the football club to raise funds for his charity the Poor Children's Dinner Table. The choice of the name Celtic was adopted at the inaugural club meeting to reflect the common origins of the Irish and the Scots. Originally the club played in white jerseys with green collars, then green and white stripes, and finally settled upon the familiar green and white hoops in 1903. Brother Walfrid On 28 May 1888 Glasgow Celtic Football Club played it's first official match against Rangers in a 5 - 2 victory. It was a friendly match and Neil McCallum scored Celtic's first ever goal at the first Celtic Park. Celtic were one of the founding members of the Scottish League in 189091 and have been an ever-present in the League since then.

Celtic Win Scottish League for First Time Celtic won the Scottish league for the first time in 1893 and went on to retain their title in the following season. This was not the first silverware won by the club as Celtic had beaten Queen's Park 5 - 2 in the final of the Scottish FA Cup at Ibrox Park in 1892. In 1897 Celtic FC became a private limited liability company and Willie Maley became the secretary-manager. Under Maley's guidance Celtic won the Scottish league six times in a row from 1905 through to 1910. During this run Celtic won the League and Cup double in 1907 - the first time that this feat had ever been achieved in the history of Scottish football. Celtic repeated this feat in the following season. Following a break of four years the Glasgow club went on another winning streak of four successive League victories from 1914 to 1917 including yet another double in the first season of that run. Celtic Set Attendance Record In 1937 Celtic met Aberdeen in the Scottish FA Cup final at Hampden Park.

Either 146,433 or 147,365 (depending on the source) fans watched the match in the ground and regardless of which figure is right it remains a record attendance at a European club football match. Jim McGrory is Appointed as Manager of Celtic FC Following the end of the Second World War, during which Jimmy McStay was at the helm, former player and captain Jimmy McGrory became manager of Celtic. McGrory was the most prolific goal scorer in British history with a record of 550 first class goals. Unfortunately He was not as successful as a football manager. In almost 20 years he won just a single Scottish League title, in 1954. McGrory also won the Scottish Cup that season. He won the Cup on one other occasion plus two Scottish League Cups. The 1957 League Cup final was truly memorable as Celtic thrashed Rangers 7-1. This is a record score line for any major British football final. In Celtic's second ever campaign in European competition McGrory led the club to the semi-finals of the European Cup Winners Cup. Celtic lost out on a aggregate score of 4-3 to MTK Budapest.

Jimmy McGrory finished up as Celtic manager in 1965 to be replaced by Jock Stein who would change the fortunes of Glasgow Celtic football club for ever. Jock Stein Becomes Celtic Manager Former Celtic footballer Jock Stein was appointed as the manager of the Glasgow club in March 1964. This was an inspired appointment as Stein would go on to become the greatest ever manager in the history of Scottish football. Stein was an almost instant success as he led Celtic to success in the Scottish Cup Final in 1965. A 3-2 win over Dunfermline Athletic brought the Cup to Celtic Park for the first time in eleven years. In the next season Jock Stein steered Celtic to their first League title for the first time in 12 seasons, and just the second title since 1938. Celtic won the title by just two points ahead of Glasgow Rangers. Once again Celtic were knocked out of the semi final of the European Cup Winners Cup. This time they lost out 2-1 on aggregate to Liverpool FC . The 1965/66 season was very successful but was a pale shadow of what was to come in the following season.

Celtic Become First British Club to Win the European Cup Celtic went on to retain the League title in the 1966/67 season once again holding off the challenge of Rangers. The club completed a domestic treble by also winning the League Cup and Scottish Cup. Amazingly Celtic also added the European Cup to their silverware haul that season. On 25 May 1967 Celtic became the first British club to win the European Cup. A Scottish League team, consisting of eleven players all from within an area of 30 miles surrounding Glasgow, beat European aristocrats Inter Milan from Italy in the final in Lisbon. Lisbon Lions Triumph The Celtic team, that became known as the Lisbon Lions, came from behind to beat Inter Milan 2-1. After just seven minutes Jim Craig brought down Cappellini in the box. Allessandro Mazzola stroked home the penalty to give the Italians an early 1-0 lead. In the typical Italian fashion of the day Milan shut up shop and got eleven men behind the ball. They managed to frustrate Celtic for the entire first half and the early part of the second half until the 63rd minute.

Craig atoned for his earlier error when he provided the assist for Tommy Gemmell to ram home the equaliser. Celtic continued on the attack and had almost 40 shots, including two that hit the woodwork, on the Milan goal throughout the match. Just as it appeared that the final, at the Estadio Nacional Stadium, was heading to extra time Gemmell became provider as he fed Bobby Murdoch who let fly from distance at the Inter goal. Goalkeeper Giuliano Sarti was left wrong-footed as Murdoch's shot deflected off Steve Chalmers in the 86th minute. This late strike was enough to garner the European Cup for a British team for the first time and, in fact, Celtic were the first non-Latin team to win the competition. Jock Stein's Celtic Reach The European Cup Final Again Under Jock Stein the cascade of silverware continued for the next ten years. Celtic won the Scottish League another eight times which also meant that from 1966 to 1974 the club had won an astonishing nine consecutive league titles. Stein also led Celtic to a further six Scottish Cups and four League Cup triumphs.

He steered the Bhoys to a second European Cup final in 1970. Yet again he led out an all-Scottish team to take on Dutch team Feyenood at the San Siro in Milan, Italy. Despite taking a first half lead through Tommy Gemmell Celtic lost out by the odd goal in three after extra time. Following a near-fatal car crash in 1975 and a period when Sean Fallon took over as caretaker manager, Jock Stein's formula for success began to dissipate to an extent. Under some pressure from within the club Stein agreed to step down as manager in favour of of former hoops captain Billy McNeill. Despite an offer of a position on the Celtic board he decided to try football management in England as he took up the reins at Leeds United. Billy McNeill's Reign as Celtic Manager Having gained managerial experience at Clyde and Aberdeen, and also having been captain of the Lisbon Lions, Billy McNeill was seen as a natural successor to Jock Stein. He brought instant success as Celtic reclaimed the League title in his first season at the helm. The title was claimed in truly dramatic style as Celtic beat Rangers 4-2 at Celtic Park in the final match of the season.

In his first five years as the manager of Celtic McNeill won a further two Scottish League titles, one Scottish Cup, and one League Cup. Following a hiatus of nine years of managing in England McNeill returned to Scotland to manage Celtic. In his second period as manager he won the League once and the Cup twice, including a doing the double in his first season back in charge. Due to an unwillingness by the Celtic board to commit funds for transfers a frustrated McNeill quit as Celtic manager in 1991. David Hay's Period as Celtic Manager Sandwiched between Billy McNeill's two periods as manager of Celtic former hoops defender, David Hay, assumed control for four years. Hay won the Scottish Cup final in 1985 and this was followed by a slightly fortuitous League title in the following season. League leaders Hearts lost to Dundee FC on the last day of the season thus handing the title to Celtic The Liam Brady & Lou Macari Eras Following the end of Billy McNeill's second period as manager former Irish international Liam Brady became manager of Celtic in June 1991. Brady was the first Celtic manager not to have played for the club.

Despite arriving in something of a fanfare, and despite his impressive playing career, Brady's period as Celtic manager was not a success and a particular low point was a 5-1 defeat to Swiss club, Neuchatel Xamax, in the UEFA Cup. In October 1993 former Celtic and Manchester United player Lou Macari replaced Liam Brady as Celtic manager. Macari lasted just one season and, as with Brady's term, he failed to deliver any silverware for the demanding Celtic supporters. Tommy Burns Becomes Celtic FC Manager Following the departure of Lou Macari Celtic recruited former player Tommy Burns. His appointment as Celtic manager was surrounded by some controversy. At the time he was the player / manager of Kilmarnock and the club refused to release Burns to Celtic. The Glasgow club was fined by the Scottish Football Association and Kilmarnock retained Burns' player registration effectively ending his playing career. Despite playing a very attractive style of play Tommy Burns won just a single Scottish Cup in his three years at the helm at Celtic Park. Tommy Burns was fired along with the rest of his coaching staff in May 1997.

Celtic Appoint First Ever Foreign Manager Following the of sacking of Tommy Burns Celtic recruited the first ever manager from outside the British football environment. Dutchman Wim Jansen was appointed as Glasgow Celtic manager in July 1997. Jansen had been in the Feyenoord team that beat Celtic in the European Cup final in 1970. Jansen's appointment had the desired effect as Celtic finally won back the Scottish League title after ten barren years. Jansen also added the Scottish League Cup in that 1997/98 season. Following ongoing personality difficulties with the club's general manager Jock Brown, Wim Jansen left Celtic just two days after securing the League title. Jansen will always be remembered as the manager who brought legendary striker Henrik Larsson to Celtic Park. Jozef Venglos, John Barnes & Kenny Dalglish Following the departure of Wim Jansen Celtic once again turned to the continent for their new manager. In July 1998 Slovakian Jozef Venglos was appointed to the role. Known as an academic who employed strange training techniques.

(In his autobiography Paul McGrath recalled his experience of Venglos as manager of Aston Villa in the early 1990's. "... his training methods were eccentric, to say the least. No doubt they were underpinned by some bombproof scientific formula. But they had us wetting ourselves on the training ground.") Despite an encouraging early 5-1 thrashing of arch rivals Rangers Venglos lasted just one season without delivering any silverware. Jozef Venglos was replaced by the two shortest-serving managers in Celtic's history. Liverpool FC playing legend John Barnes was appointed in the Summer of 1999 but was replaced by another Liverpool great, and former Celtic player, Kenny Dalglish in the following February. Barnes rein had been disastrous and Dalglish, who held the role of general manager, assumed day to day control of team affairs. Celtic finished the 1999/2000 season 21 points adrift of League title winners Rangers however they did beat Aberdeen in the Scottish League Cup final. Martin O'Neill Becomes Celtic FC Manager Former Northern Irish international Martin O'Neill became the manager of Celtic in May 2000.

O'Neill's tenure got off to a great start as Celtic beat Rangers 6-2 in his first Old Firm clash of the 2000/01 season. Celtic went on to beat their Glasgow rivals twice more in the League as the club recorded the second domestic treble in its' history. In another aspect O'Neill also emulated the great Jock Stein by reaching a major European final. Celtic met Oporto from Portugal in the UEFA Cup final in Seville, Spain on 21 May 2003. Despite an outstanding display by Henrik Larsson, that included two goals, Celtic lost out in extra time as Brazilian Derlei scored to earn a 3-2 victory for the Portuguese club. In his five years as manager of Celtic Martin O'Neill won a total of three Scottish League titles, three Scottish Cups and one League Cup. He came within a whisker of winning a fourth League title in his last season with Celtic. In the last match of the season with just two minutes of normal time remaining Celtic looked to be heading for a win that would secure the title.

Unbelievably two goals in the final two minutes from Motherwell's Scott McDonald destroyed Celtic's championship hopes and handed the SPL title to Rangers. At the end of that season Martin O'Neill left Celtic to care for his wife who was very ill at the time. Gordon Strachan Replaces Martin O'Neill as Celtic Manager Former Scottish international midfield Gordon Strachan succeeded Martin O'Neill as manager of Glasgow Celtic in May 2005. The start to his managerial career at Celtic couldn't have gotten off to a worse start. Strachan described the 5-0 crushing defeat at the hands of the Slovakian champions Artmedia Bratislava, in the Champions League, as his worst experience in football. Celtic restored some pride by winning the return match 4-0. The club also went on to record an SPL record winning margin when Celtic destroyed Dunfermline Athletic 8-1. Strachan experienced another low point as Celtic suffered a 2-1 loss to First Division Clyde in the Scottish Cup. This match was also notable as Roy Keane made his Celtic debut in the tie. Despite some rocky moments Strachan's first season as Celtic manager was a success as he won a League and League Cup double.

Having won the League title Celtic qualified for the group stage of the Champions League in the next season. Celtic's group included Manchester United, Benfica, and FC Copenhagen. With three victories at Celtic Park over each of the other group members Celtic qualified for the last 16 of the Champions League for the first time. Unfortunately for Strachan and Celtic they met Italian powerhouse, and eventual winners, AC Milan in the next round. Following a 0-0 draw at home Celtic lost out to a single goal in extra time at the San Siro in Milan. Gordon Strachan went on to win second and third Scottish League titles in successive years thereby becoming the third Celtic manager to win three consecutive titles. He also won two Scottish Cups and one League Cup. Strachan left Celtic just one day after surrendering the Scottish Premier League title to Rangers in the next season after letting slip a seven-point lead established by the end of 2008. Tony Mowbray Becomes Celtic FC Manager Englishman Tony Mowbray, a defender, had spent four years during his playing days at Celtic Park. He began his coaching career with Hibernian but really made his name in England with West Bromwich Albion.

In 2008 Mowbray guided West Brom to the Football League Championship title, meaning promotion to the Premier League and reached the semi-final of the FA Cup. Even though WBA were relegated in the following season he had piqued the interest of the Celtic board. In June 2009, following the payment of £2m in compensation to WBA, Tony Mowbray became the manager of Celtic Unfortunately for Mowbray and Celtic his record with the club turned out to be even worse than that of John Barnes. Following a number of poor results, particularly a record 40 defeat by St. Mirren, led to Tony Mowbray being sacked by Celtic on 25 March 2010. Neil Lennon Becomes Celtic FC Manager Following Mowbray's departure former Celtic player Neil Lennon was appointed as caretaker manager for the remainder of the 2009/10 season. Lennon was appointed manager of Celtic on a full time basis on 9 June 2010. In his first competitive game as full time manager Celtic lost 30 away to S.C. Braga in the Champions League.

List of Honours Won by Celtic FC Celtic FC has a hugely impressive list of honours won over the years.

Competition Total Scottish League Titles 1893, 1894, 1896, 1898, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1919, 1922, 1926, 1936, 1938, 1954, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1977, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1986, 1988, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2007, 200

8, 2012, 2013 44 Scottish Cup 1892, 1899, 1900, 1904, 1907, 1908, 1911, 1912, 1914, 1923, 1925, 1927, 1931, 1933, 1937, 1951, 1954, 1965, 1967, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1974, 1975, 1977, 1980, 1985, 1988, 1989, 1995, 2001, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2011 35 1957, 1958, 1966, 1967, 1

968, 1969, 1970, 1975, 1983, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2006, 2009 14 Brother Walfrid | Memorial sculpture of Brother Walfrid, who… | Flickr dr_urbanus (Martin) By: dr_urbanus (Martin) Brother Walfrid Memorial sculpture of Brother Walfrid, who founded Glasgow Celtic Football Club, in his home town of Ballymote, Co.

Sligo. Andrew Kerins was born in Ballymote on 18 May 1840. He grew up during the Great Famine and made it his lifetime ambition to help alleviate hunger and poverty. In 1855 he left for Glasgow where he became interested in charitable work carried out by the Marist Order. He later joined its Teaching Order, taking the name Brother Walfrid. He was a born organiser and his efforts to improve the lot of the poor led him to become involved in arranging exhibition games for charity. Following one such game, with Edinburgh Hibernians, he decided that Glasgow should have its own Irish football club. The new club was formally constituted on 6 November 1887. The name Celtic was chosen to reflect both Irish and Scottish identities. The first game was played in May 1888. In 1892, Brother Walfrid was transferred to London where he carried on his great charitable work among the Irish poor. In 1912, following ill health he was transferred to Dumfries. He died, aged 74, on 17 April 1915 and is buried in Mount St. Michael Cemetery in Dumfries.

Created by Co. Mayo sculptor Mark Rode, the memorial was unveiled on 24 October 2004. It was funded entirely by Celtic supporters in the North West and beyond. The most symbolic fundraiser was a sponsored walk from Brother Walfrid's homestead to Celtic Park, Glasgow by two members of Sligo Brother Walfrid Committee. Done

Question: Which British football club was founded by Brother Walfrid?
Answer: (GLASGOW) CELTIC